Tarantino reveals plot for Django Unchained
The plot expands on the story revealed in leaks from bloggers claiming to have read Tarantino’s screenplay
Read: Guardian.co.uk
Anthony Hopkins As Alfred Hitchcock: First Photo From The ‘Psycho’ Director’s Biopic
“She couldn’t bear it.”
“Considering the vivid 3D effects, we fear that viewers may reach out their hands for a touch and thus interrupt other people’s viewing.” - Titanic censored for nudity in China, No 3D boobs for Chinese viewers - Offbeat China
SMH.
Very cool
‘Memento’ Broken Down In A Graphic
(via HuffPo)
Quentin Tarantino’s favorite camera angle — looking up at the actors.
(TIME via Have You Seen This)
MTV’s exclusive first look at the poster for “Marley,” the upcoming documentary about the life and times of the highly acclaimed musician.
Much Ado About Nothing
For a little movie without special effects, dramatic reveals, or cutting-edge sex scenes—a movie about nothing at all, really—Barry Levinson’s 1982 comedy, Diner, caused a tectonic shift in popular culture. It paved the way for Seinfeld, Pulp Fiction, The Office, and Judd Apatow’s career, and made stars of Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Ellen Barkin, and Paul Reiser. Three decades later, S. L. Price reports how a novice director and his raw cast broke all the rules—and stumbled into genius.
Read: How Barry Levinson’s Diner Changed Cinema - Vanity Fair
Today’s Washington star sighting… Al Pacino receives the National Medal of the Arts from President Obama during an East Room ceremony in the White House.
AP Photographer Susan Walsh made both of these images.
“This is somewhere between the top, the Nobel Prize, and the bottom, the Republican primary.”
Database Cinema: An Instant Movie Mashup Generator
Julian Palacz’s Algorithmic Search for Love, an interactive digital media installation, works like a search engine; viewers can search a collection of films for a certain spoken phrase and the program plays back a montage of all those moments in sequence. The program works by parsing the English subtitle tracks of 500 films on a local hard drive, creating an edit similar to the “supercut” sequences that have been so popular on YouTube lately — like this one. This video demonstrates how the program works with the phrases “where are you?” and “holy shit!” (the video contains some adult language and scenes).
Read more —> The Atlantic
Martin Scorsese, Alexander Payne, Michel Hazanavicius, Stephen Daldry and George Clooney discuss the joys and hardships of filmmaking.
Read —> Latimes
“I’m not a Republican and not really a Democrat. I’m probably more an anarchist.”
